DebianArt: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/surul

Github: https://github.com/madhanmaaz/surul

2 days using zorin then switched to debian bcz some youtuber said "fuck distros its all debian so just use debian" and im loving it, i mean its my first time ever using linux and i feel i could not have made a better choice

I made the black wallpaper with photocraft, pretty good app btw

edit: i have less than 2 weeks with linux btw

Took a long time. Had some glitches like Gnome 50 removing the Logout button (added it back) and the Japaneses keyboard refusing to stay deleted (used the terminal to get rid of it). Then I had a startup prob were my desktop icons didn't load and something was freezing the system.

So I used Timeshift to revert, which worked fine. There was nothing interesting in Forky for me anyway.

My advice: Go ahead and update the kernel, which works fine, and any other back-ports you need but stay on Stable.

I don't know why but standard synaptic's filters are broken.
I tried "rm -f /root/.config/synaptic/synaptic.conf" and restarted synaptic but i got the same results with filters.
I can use only apt but i'd like to understand what's wrong with synaptic ?

I have 300GB for Debian; I need to split this space between root and /home. The swap is usually 4GB. I use Wine and store games, videos, photos, music, documents and programs in /home. What is your suggestion for dividing

I've never been able to get an accurate location on my laptop on any map application. My reported location is currently approximately 25 km away from where I actually am.

This happens across all the apps I've tried, so it doesn't appear to be limited to a specific browser or mapping application.

The only difference it see is brave where its a bit closer but not that much.

System information

• Laptop: MSI Stealth 16 Studio A13VG
• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (Trixie)
• Kernel: Linux 6.12.111+deb13-amd64
• Desktop environment: GNOME 48
• Display server: Wayland
• Architecture: x86_64
• Network: Connected via Wi-Fi

Troubleshooting so far

I've checked the GeoClue installation and service status.

• geoclue-2.0 version 2.7.2 is installed.
• The system-level geoclue.service is active and running.
• The org.freedesktop.GeoClue2 D-Bus service is registered.
• Wi-Fi is connected and working normally.

However, my location is still significantly inaccurate.

Please let me know if you need more debug information.

Guys, I've set up two PCs for my kids running Debian and GNOME. We're only getting poor data throughput and connections on the 2.4 GHz band when using USB Wi-Fi sticks. Without wanting to experiment with more USB sticks right now, I'd like to equip both PCs with the Wi-Fi PCIe card mentioned in the title.

Does anyone use this card and have had good experiences with it? How is the driver support? Is there anything in particular I need to watch out for?

I have very little experience with Debian; I only use BSDs for myself and my work environment. But the two bys want to start gaming now.

TIA!

Edit: CachyOS banned me from their subreddit for respostimg this there 🤣

im a simple guy from iran with limited and resticted internet and restricted money and everything, so when windows was abusing my laptop for no reason and i heard linux makes your hardware live for longer i decided no more windows and switched.

long story short cachyos is Super Duper hyped and everyone says to download it. but its so bad and unstable with its updates, literally everysingle one of them broke my laptop and i have a diploma in computer software and hardware and i am the most tech savy guy i know so if my skills are not enough idk who's is?

so i searched for a more stable distro and found out debian is considered the best by literally everyone next to ARCH. so i downloaded debian and the first big difference is that debian lets you to have as many WM as you want witch is super amazing cuz if one of them breaks down you can just use another one and also you can just use your desktop however you want, witch is great to have this freedom, but i use kde plasma everyday anyways. also it just easily lets you use kde and gnome apps in eatch others workflow no problem

its also so light that i downloaded it on my sisters old laptop and even that garbage works now awsome!

and i have yet to see if there is any difference between gaming on debian and cachyos other than that it toke me 1 week to install steam on debian witch was also true for cachyos since i first tried hypraland (worst mistake ever)

now these are the things i learned thus far

ricing is BS.

while downloading linux i was obsessed with ricing and making my own desktop. but after using linux for 1 month or 2 now io can say it honestly base kde or cosmos or gnome all look good enough for me and anything more than that is just a waste if time so dont even think a out ricing.

second is that arch isnt that difference from debian for a noobie like me other than the fact that its gonna break down more and worse

third: please dont accidentaly format your external drives 😭 that shet toke me so long to recover i nearly lost my childhood photos and all my documents and so much more that im not sure if i even got them back or not

forth: instead of watching youtube go and learn how to use your distro cuz youtubers just make you feel like a imbecile.

anyways thx for all of you that created debian and kde plasma and gnome and linux and firefox and all of you'll honestly you guys are the real heros.

edit: this post made people at cachyos subreddit really mad and its kinda funny ngl 😅 but this isnt rage bait and i still love cachy os so yea no hate towards anyone.

Help! I have a Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Gen 2 (CPU: Intel i7-1165G7) with 32 GB of ram instead of the 16 GB it came with. The laptop came with Windows 11 but in the past few days I installed Debian 13.7 GNOME on it because I hate Windows.

After I booted up into Debian for the first time all of GNOME's animations were laggy and Firefox was very slow. I did not expect this because on some other older computers I have Debian ran faster than Windows. The boot times were also slower than Windows but not by much. In fact I would say than it is barely usable because of the lag.

The strange part is that this morning I turned on my laptop and everything was smooth and not lagging. I think it took less than 15 seconds to boot too.

Could someone please explain why this is happening and provide a solution. Also if you have any questions about the situation feel free to ask.

Update: I kinda figured out the problem. It wasn't my GPU drivers. I installed them and nothing really changed. Instead, cpupower reports my CPU's frequency for the 8 threads to be around 220 MHz, instead of the base frequecy of 2.8 GHz, which is apperently its maximum frequeny (I'm pretty sure it's max should be around 4 GHz) . I tried to change the governor from powersave to performance and even set the minimum CPU speed to around 600 MHz but I didn't notice any changes.

Update AGAIN (from like 30 minutes after the previous update): To confirm that it was my CPU, I turned on my computer again and it was running smoothly like the strange part I mentioned, so I checked cpupower and it actually said something normal: around an average of 2 GHz, I let my computer sit for a while but it was slow again (400 MHz). I have no idea why this is happening but one sign of my computer being at it's normal speed is the GRUB bootloader: when my computer is going to have a slow performarce, it takes a while between the Lenovo text with a red background to transition to GRUB (it kinda looks like your loading an image slowly), but when the computer is going to run fast, the GRUB bootloader seems to appear on the screen instantly after Lenovo's text.

Debian has released kernel package 6.12.113-1 for Debian 13 (Trixie), including a patch for the PwnEscape vulnerability.

To check your running kernel version:

uname -r

After updating, verify that the patched kernel is installed and reboot if required.

Hey everyone! I just got Debian Trixie with KDE Plasma on my Dell Latitude 7280 (coming from Ubuntu) and I just love it so much. I have a small issue though: if you look close, there is a line on the top left corner of the screen that seems to be a window. It disappears when I fullscreen another app and I've rebooted many times but it wouldn't go. Can anyone help me? Thanks so much!

hello, i tried distro hopping from ubuntu to debian. after the initial installation (?) my system is just stuck on this screen. i also tried launching recovery mode but that did basically nothing to fix this. a little help would be appreciated! :)

I have a Minisforum NAB9 (2 RJ45 and WiFi) and loaded Debian 13 (trixie) with Cinnamon yesterday to get started building a docker host.

Everything was going fine and it found the 2 wired NIC and the WiFi.

Using the Settings > Network app, it shows the 2 wired devices (enp2s0 & enp3s0) and each has a different MAC address. The WiFi is listed and shows the Visible Networks.

But it seemed like it was treating the 2 wired connections as 1. If I changed the name of the 1st, the 2nd had the same name. If I used DHCP on the 1st, the 2nd had DHCP even though I wanted it "Manual".

The plan was to have NIC 1 (enp2s0) in the native LAN using DHCP and NIC 2 (enp3s0) in a private LAN (for CCTV with no access to the Internet) using a fixed IP address, no DNS and no router.

Yesterday, despite some of the weirdness with the Setup > Network app, it was all working as I expected. NIC 1 had full access to the Internet and NIC 2 could ping a device on the private LAN.

Today, there was a Debian update alert and I let it update. Now there is zero network access on either NIC. Nothing.

NIC 1 still gets a DHCP assigned address, but the "nmcli device show" displays that there is no IP4.GATEWAY and no IP4.DNS[1] or [2], those fields are --.

And enp3s0 had no IP4.?? details listed with nmcli. With the RJ45 unplugged the flag "GENERAL.STATE:" is "20 (disconnected) and with it plugged in, it is "30 (disconnected). In the Settings > Network,

If I set NIC 1 to "Manual", I can plug in all the details, and it starts working fine and nmcli shows all the correct details. But, DHCP doesn't work. It gets 1/2 the details and none of the DNS or GW.

The enp3s0 had no connection. The "enp3s0" was there, but nothing under it. I clicked the + to add a new profile and selected the MAC address of enp3s0 and filled in the IP address. But it won't ping any of the devices it would ping yesterday.

I may have FUBARed something yesterday. How can I get networking sorted (short of reinstalling from scratch)?

FWIW: I use CentOS / Redhat and now using Rocky. Maybe that should help, but usually, I'm a CLI kind of admin, and the Setting GUI seem to get in the way. I went to Debian because it was recommended for Frigate and Home Assistant.

Hello! I am gonna get a laptop that uses a panther lake processor and needs a kernel above 6.19
I currently use debian trixie LTS, and I am wondering if it would be advisable/possible to use backports until forky comes out (at which point I'd just swith to forky lts.)
All I need is the kernel, and I know how to make the .pref file to filter out everything except the kernel but I don't know if my eventual migration would be safe to do

im thinking bout reinstalling my whole os just to put xfce on it, is it worth it? im a blender animator and i think the extra free ram(around 2gb) will be quite usefull while rendering heavier scenes

Saludos cordiales!
Ahora mismo tengo una configuración que me encanta, tengo el sistema un poco desordenado con programas que probé pero no me convencieron, o parte de experimentos ... pero hay programas y carpetas en .config que me gustaría conservar para una instalación limpia.
¿que me aconsejáis? dselect? git? algún script?

Having some visual issues with Dash to Panel ver. 74.

1. The left side of the panel is not showing the web window as on the right side. I want the left side of the panel also show the window.

2. when running fullscreen windows, they only reaches the top edge of the panel, not the bottom of the screen, so I have to adjust the size manually. How to make the window reach the bottom of the screen, behind the panel? Automatically that is, not resizing manually as i do now.

Any advice highly appreciated!

Does a Debian blend install all the software under all its metapackages? If so, that sounds extremely wasteful, since the blends have thousands of packages.

Assuming no, what does a blend actually do? Does it make some metapackages more accessible somehow? If so, that's sounds awesome.

Afaik the documentation never answers this basic question.

I've managed to get pcsc_scan to work. Unfortunately it's output is in Klingon and there is no man page.

I'm a bit of a retard. I can't find a graphical reader, writer in synaptic. What search term do I use to get it.

Hello! Anyone knows why my cursor might not see options to click near the toolbar? so my toolbar is at the bottom of the screen and when something is in that area on the website it might not allow me to click it. Thanks